stolen from mactavish

[jinian]

Dear Nobel Prize committee:

I am writing to protest the nomination of U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. President George W. Bush for the Nobel Peace Prize, and to urge the committee not to award this prestigious recognition to them.

Norwegian Member of Parliament Harald Tom Nesvik announced that he has submitted a nomination for Tony Blair and George W. Bush for "their decisive action against terrorism, something I believe in the future will be the greatest threat to peace."

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I should have checked it first.

According to snopes (snipped for length):

Claim: President George W. Bush has been nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Status: True.

Origins: Despite a rumor that circulated late in 2001, President Bush wasn't amongst the nominees for the 2001 prize (which was awarded to the United Nations and its Secretary-General, Kofi Annan): The deadline for Peace Prize nominations is February 1, and Bush wasn't sworn in as president until January 20. For President Bush (or anyone else) to have produced
accomplishments worthy of Nobel Prize recognition after a mere eleven days in office would have been a truly astounding feat indeed.

In February 2002, however, reports began circulating that members of the Norwegian Nobel committee had let it slip that George W. Bush was among the persons (along with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani) being considered for the 2002 Peace Prize. [I hate "persons" as a plural except in rare cases.] The Reuters news agency noted, however:
Neither Bush nor Blair is likely to win. Bishop Gunnar Staalsett, a member of the secretive five-member Nobel committee which elects the winner, has spoken out against the U.S.-led and British-backed strikes on Afghanistan.

And Gunnar Berge, Chairman of the committee, said:
"If that which is hailed as a success by so many is an encouragement to continue by the same means into other countries like Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, (and) Iraq, then I think we have only seen the beginning of disaster."

"The victory of terrorism is if we respond in the language and the means of the terrorist, and we should not do that,"

This doesn't seem like a good augury for Bush's hopes of winding
up alongside Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King, Jr..

The Prize Committee consists of Gunnar Berge, Gunnar Staalsett, Hanna Kristine Kvanmo, Sissel Marie Roenbeck, and Inger-Marie Ytterhorn.

The Peace Prize is to go, in part, to someone who "shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind" and one part is to be given to the person who "shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."

This fits our George to a T, doesn't it?

[and most important:]
Please note that the "E-mail" address given in the previous post
is just the postmaster, and will probably go straight to the bit bucket. A thoughtful and personal letter would do far more good, if you are moved to write. Postage to Sweden is $0.80 (eighty cents) for airmail letter post up to one ounce. You'll have to mark it "AIRMAIL" and perhaps add "PAR AVION" or it will go surface mail and take 4-6 weeks.

Their real address is:
The Norwegian Nobel Institute
Drammensveien 19
NO-0255 OSLO
NORWAY

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

The notion of Bush being nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize is self-parodying... sigh.